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- noun psychology The progressive
evolution ofinfantile sexuality throughoral ,anal ,phallic ,latent , andgenital phases.
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- noun (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage
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